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Donation makes sight saving treatment possible

Moorfields undertakes more than a thousand corneal transplants a year, none of which would be possible without the kindness and generosity of those who agree to be tissue donors.

Each year, hundreds of patients walk away from Moorfields having undergone a corneal transplant, or corneal graft, quite simply with “the gift of sight”. Patients like Chris Watkins, a retired broadcast journalist, who was diagnosed with Fuchs’ dystrophy, a progressive disease that affects the cornea which if left untreated can lead to blindness. Or Dhivya Sivanesan who suffered for 15 years with keratoconus and was referred to Moorfields for a transplant. Their lives have simply been transformed by that all-important donor, the skill of the surgeons, and the team at the Moorfields Lions Eye Bank who retrieve and prepare the tissue for transplantation.